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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Jane Mitchell referred me to her blog re the issue. See below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>And thanks Yvonne for your summary. I will definitely be a
delegate on Monday. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Susan K<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><a href="http://chicktrip.com/blog/">http://chicktrip.com/blog/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>My
speech on Tuesday in response to Tom Galloway’s motion to not include the
sensitive SW corner of Kitchener as part of the protected countryside.
The motion was defeated, 14 to 3, and so the land will remain firmly
agricultural and part of the countryside, not in the urban area. Tom,
Mayor Zehr, Jake Smola and Jim Wideman voting in favour.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The
following would have been removed from the motion for the final changes for the
official plan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>Request
the Province to modify Maps 4 – Greenland Network and 6g – Other
Source Water Protection Areas to designate the southwest corner of the City of
Kitchener as Regional Recharge Areas as originally recommended to Regional
Council on June 16, 2009<br>
d) Request the Province to modify Map 7 – The Countryside to designate the
southwest corner ofthe City of Kitchener as Protected Countryside as originally
recommended to Regional Council on June 16, 2009;</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>Speech</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>Kitchener
is leaking out onto our farmland and deflating our environmental plans.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>The
owners of the land in the SW corner have been led on a string, first for 12
months now proposed for 5 more years, that their land might be developed.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>Many
developers, consultants and land owners from all over the region have come
before us asking to have their piece of land put back into the urban area. They
have been turned down.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>Just
like Kitchener council did for the SW corner, the previous council of the
City of Waterloo opposed designating the NW corner of Waterloo, another
sensitive water recharge area, as part of the Environmentally Sensitive
Landscapes. The Region designated the area anyway, which I agree was the
right thing to do.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>Why
should Kitchener be treated differently than the rest of the region?</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i>It
is time we drew a line in the sand around the urban area.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Mayor
Brenda said, “ It’s time to take a stand as a regional council
and enforce a protected countryside line.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> Tom’s
motion was introduced by Jim Wideman, the chair, as an amendment even though it
was contrary to the full motion on the table as moved by Sean Strickland and
seconded by Jean Haalboom long before anyone moved and seconded Tom’s
motion. We complained but did not challenge the chair when he
didn’t change it as “challenging the chair” can lead to
councillors being ticked off unnecessarily. We carried on. At the end of the
discussion, Jim called the question then spoke to the motion about the poor
treatment of the owners of the land that will be designated. Jim
stopped all rebutes on his words with this manouver but fed up councillors were
having none of it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Jane
Brewer waved Tom’s paper in the air, calling it “This piece of
paper”, refusing to call it an amendment and then she pointed out that
the owners of the land had had a discussion with staff at the Ayr meeting and
that if she was the owners,she would have pned the next day and arranged a
meeting if this was such an important issue to them.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The
ROP report on final changes and provincial response: <a
href="http://bit.ly/abjUFG">http://bit.ly/abjUFG</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>ROP
passed last year without SW corner included for one year for further
consultation. <a
href="http://www.region.waterloo.on.ca/web/region.nsf/DocID/CA5BC18540AE6A2185257555006D0304?OpenDocument">http://www.region.waterloo.on.ca/web/region.nsf/DocID/CA5BC18540AE6A2185257555006D0304?OpenDocument</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>After
we also passed the transportation master plan, I thanked staff for all their
hard work. I reminded council once again, that when I voted for the Light Rapid
Transit, it was because I had been assured that the ROP with the firm
countryside line protecting our farmland and environmentally sensitive areas
and putting limits on urban sprawl; and the transportation master plan with its
emphasis on more transit everywhere and more cycling and pedestrian routes
would be passed. I was now satisfied that those requirements had been
fulfilled. Because without those other pieces, the LRT would certainly not work
as a method of intensification.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a
href="http://www.region.waterloo.on.ca/web/region.nsf/8ef02c0fded0c82a85256e590071a3ce/AB487A489BD086708525774600577521/$file/P-10-059.pdf?openelement">http://www.region.waterloo.on.ca/web/region.nsf/8ef02c0fded0c82a85256e590071a3ce/AB487A489BD086708525774600577521/$file/P-10-059.pdf?openelement</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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